I rarely award ten out of ten, after all, life is imperfect, nothing is actually worth the ultimate reward - apart from England winning the World Cup in 1966, my first kiss, the iconic inscrutability of Patrick McGoohan in The Prisoner and Tottenham Hotspur winning the double - that's not cream, by the way, it's soccer - or football to us Brits.
This is the darkest episode of the series but amongst the best. Brittas with his anally retentive attitudes, understandably checks the lavatories for cleanliness and finds a key to a locker behind one - and the key to another locker, behind another.
The keys belong to gangs, including one from Bolivia - a beautiful country which shouldn't be judged by the ham actors playing Bolivian gangsters in this episode - doing a drugs deal with a local gang. One case from the locker contains £650,000, the other, the drugs.
Both are taken to Gordon's office where Helen is told to find her new prescription - which clearly has an uplifting effect on her.
Meanwhile the gangs, thinking each has double-crossed the other, have a shoot-out, Brittas gets stuck to a chain saw, which amazingly goes mad and carries him into the sports hall, where he cuts through the Zimmer frames of elderly exercisers.
At his trial, the gangster he'd given a squash trophy to and told of his dream, provides perfect redemption and enables the jury in to find him not guilty.
He is guilty of a breathtaking comic performance, so tongue in cheek, it almost protrudes into the leisure centre pool. Carol for-sees the carnage - but can't prevent it.
During these time of greater sensitivity, such a plot would have difficulty getting past the chainsaws of script editors and producers. In 1992 it was hilariously, side-splittingly funny - and still is, today.
This is the darkest episode of the series but amongst the best. Brittas with his anally retentive attitudes, understandably checks the lavatories for cleanliness and finds a key to a locker behind one - and the key to another locker, behind another.
The keys belong to gangs, including one from Bolivia - a beautiful country which shouldn't be judged by the ham actors playing Bolivian gangsters in this episode - doing a drugs deal with a local gang. One case from the locker contains £650,000, the other, the drugs.
Both are taken to Gordon's office where Helen is told to find her new prescription - which clearly has an uplifting effect on her.
Meanwhile the gangs, thinking each has double-crossed the other, have a shoot-out, Brittas gets stuck to a chain saw, which amazingly goes mad and carries him into the sports hall, where he cuts through the Zimmer frames of elderly exercisers.
At his trial, the gangster he'd given a squash trophy to and told of his dream, provides perfect redemption and enables the jury in to find him not guilty.
He is guilty of a breathtaking comic performance, so tongue in cheek, it almost protrudes into the leisure centre pool. Carol for-sees the carnage - but can't prevent it.
During these time of greater sensitivity, such a plot would have difficulty getting past the chainsaws of script editors and producers. In 1992 it was hilariously, side-splittingly funny - and still is, today.